Enable Mission Control

Mission Control is an experimental feature and it’s not enabled by default, in order to enable it, launch node-red with the environment variable

REDBOT_ENABLE_MISSION_CONTROL=true node-red -u /my-node-red-project

or with Docker

 docker run -d -p 1880:1880 -e REDBOT_ENABLE_MISSION_CONTROL=true guidone/redbot

or editing the Node-RED’s configuration file settings.js (generally located at ~/.node-red/settings.js

module.exports = {
	// ...
  // Node-RED configuration
  // ...
  RedBot: {
    enableMissionControl: true
  }
};

Then open the bot configuration in Node-RED (the image below is showing a Facebook Messenger configuration panel) and enable “Use Mission Control”, you can also specify a bot id (or a random one will be assigned)

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The Mission Control panel is running - in the development box - at http://localhost:1880/mc (default username and password: admin / admin) and it’s not connected to the bot “my-bot-id”.

<aside> 💡 The bot id is the unique identifier for a bot application, across different platforms, for example a Telegram bot and Facebook Messenger bot with the same bot id are using the same Mission Control’s panel.

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